Common secrets in plain sight: it’s yesterday’s paper nevertheless.
Yeah, newspapers usually get delivered between 2-4am. When I was still living with my parents I would usually hear it being delivered
When i was a student, i did newspaper delivery. The van drops the newspaper around midnite-3am depends on the driver. I start the distribution with my bike around 4-6am. It’s interesting to see the pattern of which neighborhood subscribe to which newspaper. And also Good sport for me 😄
Not sure what’s so post-worthy about that.
Congratulations, you have discovered how people got their news before the internet, TV and radio.
Newspapers are printed late at night and sent out in the early hours of the morning. If you live in a big city you might get your paper very soon after it’s printed; in the countryside it might be a few hours later. But you would get it before you got up in the morning, so you could read it at breakfast before going to work.
Side-note: A long-running joke in the UK is that *The Guardian* is full of typos (it’s sometimes referred to as *The Grauniad* for this reason). These days that’s no longer true: it goes back to the days before computer technology, when most national daily newspapers were printed in London, with the exception of *The Guardian*, which was printed in Manchester. What this meant was that if you were in London and bought your paper at a newsstand on the way to work, you would be buying the second edition of papers printed in London — with all the typos corrected — but the second edition of *The Guardian* was still on the train from Manchester, so if you bought that paper, you would be getting the first edition.
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Common secrets in plain sight: it’s yesterday’s paper nevertheless.
Yeah, newspapers usually get delivered between 2-4am. When I was still living with my parents I would usually hear it being delivered
When i was a student, i did newspaper delivery. The van drops the newspaper around midnite-3am depends on the driver. I start the distribution with my bike around 4-6am. It’s interesting to see the pattern of which neighborhood subscribe to which newspaper. And also Good sport for me 😄
Not sure what’s so post-worthy about that.
Congratulations, you have discovered how people got their news before the internet, TV and radio.
Newspapers are printed late at night and sent out in the early hours of the morning. If you live in a big city you might get your paper very soon after it’s printed; in the countryside it might be a few hours later. But you would get it before you got up in the morning, so you could read it at breakfast before going to work.
Side-note: A long-running joke in the UK is that *The Guardian* is full of typos (it’s sometimes referred to as *The Grauniad* for this reason). These days that’s no longer true: it goes back to the days before computer technology, when most national daily newspapers were printed in London, with the exception of *The Guardian*, which was printed in Manchester. What this meant was that if you were in London and bought your paper at a newsstand on the way to work, you would be buying the second edition of papers printed in London — with all the typos corrected — but the second edition of *The Guardian* was still on the train from Manchester, so if you bought that paper, you would be getting the first edition.